Industrial–Organizational and Human Factors Graduate Program Admission

Abstract

Many psychology departments do not have industrial–organizational (IO) or human factors (HF) faculty members. As such, potential IO and HF graduate students may miss career opportunities because faculty advisors are unfamiliar with the disciplines and their graduate programs. To assist advisors, this article highlights the content of IO and HF disciplines, presents tips on how to advise undergraduates for admission to IO and HF graduate programs, provides sources of IO and HF information, suggests employability options in IO and HF, and offers an advising brochure that is available upon request. A wide variety of career options exist in both IO and HF. Advisors assisting students in evaluating potential careers and identifying graduate programs should find this information useful.

Mapping the scattered field of research on higher education. A correlated topic model of 17,000 articles, 1991–2018

“…'faculty', 'career', and 'program'). The highest loading article on this topic provides information for undergraduate advisors on how to assist students in identifying graduate programs (Shoenfelt et al 2015). The second highest loading article studies the retired professor (McMorrow and Baldwin 1991).…”

Undergraduates Learn About Industrial–Organizational Psychology and Human Factors From an Informational Brochure

“…Given that many introductory psychology texts fail to include IO (Culbertson, 2011; Payne & Pariyothorn, 2007) and similar concerns exist for HF (e.g., Brill, DeLucia, Flach, Kaber, & Youmans, 2013), a potential dearth of IO and HF information for undergraduates exists in many universities. Shoenfelt, Kottke, & Stone (2015) developed an informational brochure to address this need. Whether this IO and HF informational brochure can effectively inform undergraduates about these career options is the focus of this article.…”